Now there’s an instant way to find out what movies are advertised on television.  

Movie*Sentry is a new web-based service by Nielsen Monitor-Plus that notifies users of late-breaking national TV commercials for all new theatrical releases. 

On guard 24-hours a day, Movie*Sentry delivers new television commercial creatives to your desktop within two days of their first airing. When Movie*Sentry identifies a new spot, it delivers it to you in a full-color, full-audio, one-frame per second presentation.

Movie*Sentry answers critical questions like:

  • Which movie studio is running new television creatives?

  • In which markets are the commercials airing?

  • How many spots have been placed?

  • Are they running :30’s? :15s? 

Easy to Use

  • Delivers new TV commercial for all theatrical releases to your desktop, within two days of their initial airing
  • Notifies users via flash e-mail when new commercials air
  • Easy-to-understand output– with movie industry nomenclature

Powerful

  • Monitors the airwaves 24-hours a day, 7 days a week using a unique, patented pattern recognition system and cutting-edge Internet technology to deliver new television commercial creatives to your desktop within 2 days of their first airing
  • Tracks the activity of all new commercials wherever they appear nationwide for four weeks

Informative

  • Reports network and program on which the commercial aired, as well as details like: broadcast time, daypart, commercial duration, and its placement within the commercial break (POD)
  • Offers multiple ways to view the data:
    • New Activity - new commercials for the most recent interval available (48 hours days)
    • Daily Activity - commercial activity for a specific date defined by the user
    • Cumulative Activity - all movie commercials aired within the past 28 days 
  • Provides a variety of reporting options:
    • Activity Summary - all movie information for the time period selected (New, Daily, or Cumulative)
    • Activity Detail - occurrence information about a specific theatrical release including network, daypart, program, POD position, time
    • Creative Execution Report - all unique commercials associated with that movie/duration for the interval (New, Daily, Cumulative) selected, and allows video and storyboard viewing
  • Links this information to the digitized video versions of the captured commercials containing full-color images and complete sound track, allowing you to gain a clear understanding of the creative content.
  • Includes a storyboard tool that takes each frame of the digitized video and arranges them sequentially, in standard storyboard style, with access to the complete audio track.